Portland High School - Tifoon Yearbook (Portland, IN)

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Class of 19O2i C 'C -lf' nf' I0 it COLORS! Black and Red. FLOWER: Sun-flower. MOTTO: Lucem petimus. YELL. You '02, '02, '02, You '02, '02, '02, You '02, you '02, You '02 belong to '02. OFFICERS. ORVILLE R. EAsTERDAY. ........... President. ESTHER F. GRIFFITH .... . . . .Vice-President. JESSIE B. WILSON.. .... ........ S ecretary. LUTIE K. HUMPHRIES. . . . . . . .Treasurer. LEILA K. BIMEL ...,... ...... C rator. BESSIE M. S1MMoNs .... . ...... Historian. MAUD E. TATE ...... . . . ........... Poet. H.ARLAN E. YOUNG. . . . . . . Sergeant-at-Arms. fl History of the Class IC No chronicler has yet encountered a more diflicult subject than the history of 1902. To bring order out of chaos, to explain the wherefores, to mingle judiciously with 'the tales of our deeds the customary self-congratulating pats, the boomarangi- cal bouquets, the sentiment, the wit, the philosophy, and the profundity, which the occasion demands, with some explanation necessary to put us before the public in a true light, and tactfully omit those parts that should be left unsaid, give to the Whole credence, express it in faultless English, in the space alloted this Chronicle- chaotic indeed, obviously impossible. In this case We will follow a rule which we have always before found good and which is more often practiced than preached, When you can't go through, go around , and thus in time we will arrive at the same Climax. .

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fy History of the Class Concluded. fy We entered the Hall with the usual ceremony and with a hurning desire to ahsorlr the banquet which we were told would follow immediately after our arrival. To till up the caverous void which we lvrought with us must surelbv have impover- ished seriouslhv the larder and cellar ot' our hosts and hostess. and they had needs be replenished. .Xt the same time it required a heartrending expenditure of labor on our part to gratifhv our appetite. Hut feast we did. to sutlocation. Ui' all the viands by far the most palatable was Science. XYe were also gen- erouslhv helped to Mathematics. which was to our liking: and to History. of which there was an inexhaustihle supply. 'We drank deeplsv of English sack with Chaucer and ,lul1l1sut1. and Grecian nectar with Vlvsses. XYe sipped more Italian wine than was accustomed to he served. To those who refused the seductive southern vintage there was served later in the evening the northern Rhenish from das Land des l'rinzen Heinrich und des Kaisers. After entering the hall we were soon aware that our cordial welcome was due to our personal attractions alone. and that we were required to do nothing hut dance to the music. Hur hosts and hostess were geniall-v insistant W ?l that we try every con- coction prepared liuv them there is no accounting for tastes. Incidentally we fur- nished entertainment to the other guests, the Sophomores especiall-v taking a con- siderate f?v interest in our welfare. 'llhey instructed us in etiquette and made sport of our mental armament and ph-vsical discrepancies. all of which we accepted with sublime Qunll humor and thought a part of the evening- prograin. It was a great success. that revel. We are leaving the llall now just when the dauvlight lieg-ins to penetrate our helogged hrains. All are in rare good spirits. some are hilarious. others hopelesslhv and harmlesslhv intoxicated. Some are drunk with learning. others with their own rare perfections. and still others with the per- lvvtiotts ol' some one who sat opposite tllctll :tl lllt' liitltqtlcl. uit' SL'll2ll'illL'. t'ilt'lI WlSl1- ing the other all kinds ol' success. and each inwardlgv prauving that when he again lights upon the cold nnsvmpathetic world it will not he with a too severe thump.